About — Vagabond Muscle Coaching

Coached from the stage, not the sidelines.

I'm Jordan Schwartz. I'm a competitive bodybuilder and a J3U-certified coach, and I train and coach out of Pattaya, Thailand.

I coach men who are rebuilding because it's the problem I understand from the inside — I let it go and had to take it back, training around a real life on a body that doesn't respond the way it once did.

I also still compete. Which means the protocols I put you on are the ones I run on myself, under conditions where getting it wrong is visible on stage.

Why men who are rebuilding

Because the advice doesn't transfer. Most training content is written by and for people with nothing else on their plate, whose recovery capacity hides a multitude of programming sins. Junk volume just becomes soreness. Bad exercise selection gets absorbed.

Once real life stacks up, that margin narrows. Not your ability to build muscle — the research is clear that you still can, and studies comparing trained men in their twenties to men aged 35–54 have found no meaningful difference in power output, perceived exertion, or recovery from training.

What changes is how much error you can absorb. The program that worked when life was simpler is now quietly holding you back, and nothing about how it feels will tell you that.

That's a programming problem. It's solvable. It just needs someone measuring the right things.

How I work

Every block has a hypothesis. You'll know what each mesocycle is testing and what result would count as success. When something doesn't work, we know why, and we change one variable — not the whole plan.

Check-ins produce decisions. Weight, waist, training performance, sleep, and biofeedback go in. A specific adjustment comes back — on video, walking you through the numbers.

Volume matches your recovery, not your ambition. That usually means less than you think — and progress you can finally see.